HIT News Round Up: CommonWell Surpasses 200 Million on Network; Types of AI Used in Healthcare; and Enhanced Data Usability Efforts

Welcome to the Health Information Technology Weekly News Round Up from RosettaHealth. Each week, we will provide you with a summary of all the actionable news that hospitals, HIT vendors, ACOs, and population health providers need to be smart and effective when it comes to HIT and health information exchange.

The Sequoia Project, AHIMA Aims to Enhance Data Usability Efforts

In an effort to build better semantic interoperability of health information, the Sequoia Project and the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) have created Data Usability Taking Root, an initiative meant to ease the implementation and flow of data.

CommonWell Network Surpasses 200 Million Unique Individuals on its Nationwide Health Data Network

CommonWell Health Alliance has officially surpassed 200 million individuals in its nationwide network. This means it is sharing electronic health data for roughly 62 percent of the total United States population based U.S. Census projections. 

Health Data Utility: From Vision to Reality in Many States

Three years after the concept was first introduced by CRISP and IHIE, health data utilities (HDU) becoming a reality in many states, according to this recent Healthcare Innovation article.

Tackling Healthcare’s Biggest Burdens with Generative AI

Disparate sources of unstructured data, which abound in healthcare, are now assets to power generative AI, and private payers and healthcare systems can use the technology to deliver care, according to McKinsey.

What Types of AI Are Being Used in Healthcare?

Experts explain how current AI tools used in healthcare can be classified and what the future may hold in this recent HealthTech article.

‘Hope Is Not a Business Model’: Digital Health Fundraising Advice from 2 VCs

Two VCs from Merck Global Health Innovation Fund recently offered fundraising advice for digital health companies in this recent MedCity News article.

Civitas Adds New Members to Drive Collaboration, Interoperability

Civitas Networks for Health, an organization that aims to support interoperability through widespread collaboration, has added 11 new organizations to its membership in the first half of 2023.


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